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    324 ON THE EDUCATION OF PAUPER GIRLS.

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    The Education Of The Female Sex Is One O...

    and have which arrangements , before the Heavenl us the , y would Father true have and , throug g erfect iven h . to His prototype the all g - irl wise , yet natural if we we must would orderings always

    disp , charge towards these children the duties which are thrown upon us Iby the inability of their natural guardians to discharge children them who . must We

    are not to think of them as a number of pauper _, be taken care of at as little expense as possible , but as young girls whowhen grown to womanhoodwill be the bane or blessing of the

    next , generation , and whom we must , prepare for their part in life to It tlie is best then of essential our ability in , the as fulfilling first lace a solemn that the duty 7 wme . element shall p

    be made as much as , possible an essential , one in every institution for from the whatever reception cause of all of the young care g of irls their , whether parents orp . hans With , or the deprived home

    must also be combined the school . We have already spoken of the received peculiar in a excellence school is of hardl the training less important obtained . in _JSfo the one home who ; that has y

    value acquired studied it a is . good to That the school indeed child , can independentl is obtained fail to have in y of a observe far the superior amount d of child way wnat of , knowled could under immense meet the ge

    present with at home enlightened but beside modes s of the instruction faults of , to char what acter a are more easily and effectuall ; correctedand , the tendency is checked which the

    y , very importance excellence . No of a one home can is go apt int to o foster a well —t - o man regard aged self infant as of school undue

    being without better observing educated all this than , and is usuall perceiving y the left that case under in these the the children nurseries of are of

    nursemai the rich , d where but little young acquainted children with are often the principles of education care , and a who is anxious to purchase and quiet by yielding toand thus

    fostering infant department , the caprici of ous pauper tempers peace girls of her and charge boys . combined The school , may , for then the

    he and much trained , like teacher an ordinary , "but infant it must school be , supp managed lemented by a by kind a motherl , loving y , infant

    requires If and this sisterl is to wanting y feel care that when and it is if the the the object school little creatur - of hours individual e are is not over love shielde . and Every tenderness d froni all ..

    injurious sights and , sounds which would _produce an ineffaceably Id ad impression on its young senses , and if and its weak and probabl if all y

    diseased constitution is not carefully studied strengthened ; this we sh is all not not done onl for y have the pauper much infan to eradicat t , as we e as would it grows doit older for our , but own it , counteract the ill

    will be impossible for any after instruction to _effects The of the first irl neg leaves lect the . infant school perhaps at eight years young g

    infuses large old , or infan younger her t school irit . into It , if is all under possible the the officials , thoug care h of the barel a motherly want y probable of a matron , true that home in who a

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    324 On The Education Of Pauper Girls.

    324 ON THE EDUCATION OF PAUPER GIRLS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/36/